The New American Century: Cut Short by 92 Years

[Crewleader]

by Mike Whitney / October 4th, 2008

The era of Superpower America is coming to an end. The financial crisis was the last straw. Whatever good faith was left after the invasion of Iraq and the shrugging off of international treaties, is now gone. The United States has polluted the global economic system with worthless mortgage-backed securities and, by doing so, has pushed 6 billion people closer to a long and painful recession. That’s not something that’s easy to forgive.

The anger at the US seems to be surfacing everywhere at once. It was particularly noticeable at the recent opening of the UN General Assembly. Typically, this is a tedious event full of empty political blabbering and pretentious ceremonies. But not this time. With the world sliding towards a US-created recession; foreign leaders have started lashing out at the United States more vehemently. The speeches have been blunt and acrimonious; no one is “pulling their punches” any more. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez summed up the mood of the meetings like this:

“I think that, sooner rather than later, this empire will fall — to the benefit of the whole world, enabling a balance in the world to be created: polycentric and multi-polar. That will guarantee peace in the world. To the creation of this multi-polar world we are making our small contribution.”

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/the-new-american-century-cut-short-by-92-years/

[opihimoimoi]

1. PNACers going down in PHLAMES as the GOP Brand Name Suffers

in popularity......

[bhikkhu]

2. Empire is always by consent, and not by force.

if my reading of history have been of any use...the moment we were forced to intervene militarily in the ME, and to state "you are either with us or against us", and to react with palpable fear to the threat of another attack after 911, the "empire" was finished.

[Indenturedebtor]

3. Yes Nero may be dangerous, but he isn't suffered long.

We've been acting like powerdrunk madmen. Our just deserts then.

I would rather live in an Republic than an Empire anyways.

[lostnotforgotten]

4. Quite A Prescient Statement By Chavez

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